Since baseball became an official Olympic sport in 1992 there have been 5 major leaguers who have won an Olympic gold medal and a World Series. Three of them played for Cuba (Jose Contreras, Orlando Hernandez , Yuli Gurriel) and two for team USA.
Name the only two American baseball players to have won a baseball Olympic gold medal and a World Series championship.
I saw in a lone source that said there were three but I couldn't find a third unless they are counting Tommy Lasorda.
This is a hard question so I'll give several hints.
Hints: Both had long MLB careers one for 12 years and the other 17 years.
One of the two actually won two World Series.
Neither one of them was ever an All Star.
They are both position players, not pitchers
One of them played for both the Yankees and the Mets for one year each.
The other played his entire 17 year career (except for the 37 games) in the AL.
Name the only two American baseball players to have won a baseball Olympic gold medal and a World Series championship.
I saw in a lone source that said there were three but I couldn't find a third unless they are counting Tommy Lasorda.
This is a hard question so I'll give several hints.
Hints: Both had long MLB careers one for 12 years and the other 17 years.
One of the two actually won two World Series.
Neither one of them was ever an All Star.
They are both position players, not pitchers
One of them played for both the Yankees and the Mets for one year each.
The other played his entire 17 year career (except for the 37 games) in the AL.
